World of Weird Al Yankovic

I wish there was a video for "Trapped in the Drive-Thru", that would be great!

Poptronixx @ Jan 20 2007, 10:37 PM wrote: I wish there was a video for "Trapped in the Drive-Thru", that would be great!

Ya, but they wouldn't have enough time to do it. Almost 11 minutes takes a long time to shoot, and it might get boring to some people. Though watching a man and his wife suffering in a drive-thru would be quite hilarious.

Yeah, police could use the video as an interrogation tool to break the perps into Confession!

It's not just the time, but I highly doubt Zomba would be willing to finance a 12-minute video which would never get any airplay and would be most popular on YouTube all for a song which you can't even buy on iTunes. The best hope we have for this song is its live rendition. Don't discount the possibility of this song being performed in full. I know it's most likely going to end up in the Medley, but it's possible.

My favourite part of this song is "Now tell me who's this Paul?"

for some reason.

That's probably my least favorite part. It's the only part of the song that doesn't make sense; or, at least it's something that wouldn't be said in a drive-thru.

I think the "now tell me who's this Paul" bit is a poke at the jealousy/infidelity motif that runs through R Kelly's song. I actually find it very amusing the way Al puts the jealousy thing out there, and then dials it down to something absurdly inconsequential.

That's the way I took it too, OE. I think the wife asked that question because she wanted to make sure her husband wasn't cheating on her and lying about his name so he wouldn't get caught, or she just wanted to know more about this guy who supposedly sounded like her husband.

ETA: Thanks for pointing that out, Patti!

Technically, he only sounded like her husband. I like that part, too, actually. OE put it very well. I hadn't really thought of that, but it makes more sense now.

The whole thing makes a lot of sense if you are familiar with the original and would probably seem pretty pointless outside of that context. But the whole premise behind parody is that you are familiar with the original.